Becoming the richest man by playing games that help cure depression

Chew! Chew hard!

Let's get down to business! Let's get to the evaluation!

"Would you like to buy this monkey?"

"I can't wait! Start the review already!"

Amidst the cheers filling the screen, A-Yin waved his hand with a smile: "You guys have such a mentality, alright, alright, let's see what good games we have today."

He opened the Zhiyou client, and almost simultaneously, Li Zhujian tapped his finger in the developer backend—"Swing the Hammer" was officially launched!

The page refreshed, and the first game on the Zhiyou homepage in the live stream was that bald little guy sitting in a jar, wielding a sledgehammer. Without thinking much, A-Yin casually clicked on the game.

He was unaware that an ultimate torment was about to begin for him.

"Hahahaha, wow, this cover is absolutely outrageous!"

"Could a carbon-based life form have come up with this protagonist design? It's kind of ugly-cute, and it even has a silly vibe!"

"He doesn't look very bright, that's so strange!"

"So what kind of game is this? It looks all flashy."

"It looks like a silly little game designed to be funny, what's so interesting about it?"

"Is he incredibly boring? Is there actually something to do?"

……

"I'll go."

A-Yin stared at the silly little figures on the screen and couldn't help but laugh out loud, scratching his head and complaining, "What are these things? They're so funny."

He casually clicked on the game's description, expecting a long and detailed explanation of its features, but the description for this hammer-wielding game was surprisingly clean.

Just one line: A top-notch psychological game for fighting your inner demons, with a side note: It's your own computer, so you'd better take good care of it.

As soon as he said that, the viewers in the live stream went wild, and A Yin's curiosity was completely piqued.

What kind of game is this that's supposed to be about fighting your inner demons? It even specifically reminds you to take care of your computer. Does this game mean it can drive people to smash their computers?

"What kind of game is this? Are the system requirements ridiculously high?" Ah Yin curled his lip, completely unconcerned.

"This is a top-of-the-line computer. What AAA game on the market can't run at max settings? What's there to be afraid of?"

With a sense of curiosity, he moved the mouse to the buy button, turned to the camera, and asked the audience, "Guys, shall we buy it or not?"

The creator of this quirky game, Li Zhujian, set the price at a low of twenty yuan.

Anyway, all those random textures in the game were taken for free. He only spent 20 yuan to buy the basic action logic. As long as someone places an order, he's guaranteed to make a profit.

The viewers in the live stream were already intrigued by the outrageous description, and the screen was filled with "buy" comments without the slightest hesitation.

A-Yin immediately clicked to buy. The game's size was surprisingly small, and the textures created by Li Zhujian were rough; after compression, it was less than a gigabyte, making downloading and installation very fast.

The game screen had barely opened when the sound of whistling wind rushed in. A large hammer was firmly driven into the rock, exuding an inexplicable eeriness.

"What's going on?" Ah Yin muttered to himself, and casually clicked "Start Game".

Suddenly, a tiny figure appeared on the screen, sitting in a vat, holding a large hammer in his hand, with a forked tree branch standing beside him; the scene was extremely rudimentary.

"With this configuration, it's not that difficult," A-Yin said, casually shaking the mouse.

At this moment, a prompt pops up at the top of the screen: Stay calm and break free from gravity.

Ah Yin paused for a moment, looking puzzled: "What do you mean? I don't understand."

He tried moving the mouse again, and the hammer on the little man in the tank started to sway. After struggling for a while, he realized that he could only control this hammer and had to move his body by swinging it.

Ah Yin turned the mouse around, and the little man planted the hammer on the ground, groaning and squeezing as he moved, finally managing to get a little closer to the tree branch.

"Oh! Got it, got it!" Ah Yin snapped his fingers, patted his chest confidently at the camera.

"Brothers, got it? It's just climbing up while swinging a hammer. This game is super easy, I'll definitely beat it in ten minutes, let's move on to the next one!"

After saying that, he started operating the device. Although the controls were awkward, Ah Yin did have some talent for games, and he quickly moved the little character under the tree.

"Hey!" he shouted, maneuvering the little figure to steadily hook the hammer onto the tree branch, and pulling the mouse to make the little figure jump upwards.

But as soon as he started, he realized something was wrong—the upper branch was longer, and he had to swing his body up first, then quickly hook onto the upper branch to flip over.

Now, A-Yin is determined to fight this tree branch to the death.

"Damn it! Hey, what's going on?"

"It's okay, try again, it's a minor issue."

"Get up there! Get up there now!"

"Why are you so useless? Try to climb higher!"

Ah Yin kept muttering to himself, cursing the villains while comforting himself: "Don't rush, don't rush, stay calm, mindset is the most important thing."

No matter how he tried, the little boy would only hook himself on the tree branch and bang the trunk with the jar under his bottom.

His actions were ridiculously comical, and he made absolutely no progress. He got stuck right at the start.

The live stream chat was absolutely in stitches, the screen was filled with jokes and banter:

"Hahaha, are you trying to fight with a tree trunk here?"

"Master of War Trees is confirmed! He's laughing all the way to the bank!"

"What a terrible game! It's so torture!"

"Ten minutes have passed, and you can't even handle a tree? Aren't you ashamed?"

"This is amazing! Who made this ridiculous game?!"

……

This game is like magic; the more difficult it gets, the more determined A-Yin becomes to conquer the level.

After dozens of attempts, by chance, he manipulated the little figure to poke the ground with a hammer, and the reverse force sent the little figure bouncing onto the second tree branch.

"Hey! It's done! It's done!" Ah Yin slammed his hand on the table, his eyes lighting up. Pointing at the screen triumphantly, he exclaimed, "See? See? It's up here!"

"That's it? Is it that hard? Younger brothers, you should learn from this!"

The live chat instantly erupted in cheers, with some praising the move and others criticizing it:

"Boss is awesome!"

"It's just a broken tree branch, look how smug you are."

"Damn it, he actually managed to fake it!"

"666666"

……

Seeing the screen full of applause, A-Yin felt a great sense of accomplishment and became incredibly confident. He was so arrogant that he didn't take the subsequent levels seriously at all.

He gripped the mouse, intending to swing the hammer across the treetop in one go, but instead heard a loud "clang".

The bottom of the jar slammed into the treetop, and the little figure sitting in the jar fell back to its original position, instantly returning to square one.

Ah Yin's smile froze instantly, and he stood there stunned. The live stream chat exploded.

The barrage of merciless laughter filled the screen, a cacophony of mockery.

"That's it? No way, no way, they fell down like that?"

"Are you kidding me, bro? You're down now. All that bragging was for nothing!"

"Hahaha, I'm laughing so hard I'm crying!"

"I'm completely dumbfounded, this game is so mind-bending!"

"This isn't a still image, boss, don't just stand there!"

"I get it! No wonder they say it's a battle against inner demons; this game really tests your mentality!"

"The ultimate inner demon is confirmed; the boss is now completely under our control!"

"This monkey is already possessed by its inner demons; its mentality has collapsed!"